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    Default Never Lived in Apartment, but Charged for Damages

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: florida

    about a year and a half ago my fiance and i were living in florida. he was renting an apartment with two other roomates- all three of them on the lease. one of the roomates had a girlfriend who lived there about the last two months before they all split up and moved out she was not on the lease. My fiance and i were planning to move to california together, and i ended up staying at the apartment for the last week and half of their tenancy, and also helped him move out. I dont know the particulars of the situation but there were apparently some damages. My last credit check was clean, but i recently decided to move, and gave my thirty day notice a while back, i was supposed to move into my new place last week and almost certainly would have except for that the new rental office noticed charges on my credit report for $1100 from the apartment that he and his roomates lived in. Apparently when it came time to pay for damages, the roomates used me as a scapegoat, and we never knew till now. I was never on the lease and never lived there and i am wondering if these charges are even legal since i have nothing to do with that place. Now me and my two cats are out of a place to live and i am also five months pregnant . My fiance and i are fuming, cant go to the last place and cant move into the new place because of my credit. He doesnt know what to do because he's away at sea in Bahrain. is this legal? how do i fix it?

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    Default Re: Never Lived in Apartment, Charged for Damages

    I was never on the lease and never lived there and i am wondering if these charges are even legal since i have nothing to do with that place.
    First thing, dispute that item with the credit reporting agencies - you can do that online right now. In the notes for the dispute, put down that it is not your account, you never signed a contract with that entity.

    Then you need to contact your boyfriend's former landlord and find out exactly how he obtained your contact information, and why he included you when you were never on the lease.

    Insist in writing that he cease reporting this item, as it is not yours.

    You might have to get an attorney involved at some point to get it all cleared up.

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